Deuteronomy 7:14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Deuteronomy 7:14 in other translations
| BSB | You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock. |
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| WEB | You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. |
| ASV | Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. |
| YLT | ‘Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman--nor among your cattle; |
| DARBY | Thou shalt be blessed above all the peoples; there shall not be male or female barren with thee, or with thy cattle; |
| BBE | You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring. |
| Webster | Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. |
What does Deuteronomy 7:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 7:11-26
11-26. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day--In the covenant into which God entered with Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings so long as they continued obedient to Him as their heavenly King. He pledged His veracity that His infinite perfections would be exerted for this purpose, as well as for delivering them from…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:12-26
We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let us be constant to our duty, and we cannot question the constancy of God's mercy. Diseases are God's servants; they go where he sends them, and do what he bids them. It is therefore good for the health of our bodies, thoroughly…
Deuteronomy 7:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 7:14
- Exodus 23:26-33
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. …
- Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:11
And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Psalms 127:3
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Leviticus 26:9
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
- Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
- Psalms 147:19-20
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
- Psalms 115:15
Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
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- Deuteronomy 7:13
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Deuteronomy 7:14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
- Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy 7:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Bendito serás más que todos los pueblos: no habrá en ti varón ni hembra estéril, ni en tus bestias. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu seras béni plus que tous les peuples; il n’y aura, parmi toi et parmi tes bêtes, ni mâle ni femelle stérile; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gesegnet wirst du sein vor allen Völkern; kein Unfruchtbarer und keine Unfruchtbare wird unter dir sein, noch unter deinem Vieh. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Benedictus eris inter omnes populos. Non erit apud te sterilis utriusque sexus, tam in hominibus quam in gregibus tuis. |